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- Barbie Rohde touches the tombstone of her son, Army Sgt. Cody Bowman, at the Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery, Sunday, June 11, 2023, in Dallas. For decades, discussions of suicide prevention skirted fraught questions about firearms; the Army has punted implementing measures that might be controversial. But a growing consensus movement has taken hold, among researchers, the Veterans Administration, ordinary people like Rohde: if this country wants to get serious about addressing an epidemic of suicide, it must find a way to honor veterans and active-duty service members, respect their rights to own a gun, but keep it out of their hands on their darkest days. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Veterans are more likely than most to kill themselves with guns. Families want to keep them safe.
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Tue,10/31/23-7:02AM , 101 Reads
FLINT, Texas (AP) — She leaned out of the tent at a small-town summer festival, hoping someone would stop to ask about her tattoos, her T-shirt, the framed pictures of her son on a table in the back of the booth.
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- Chloe Akers prepares for a presentation, Friday, Aug. 5, 2022 in Nashville, Tenn. The criminal defense attorney has become the state’s primary interpreter of Tennessee’s new criminal abortion statute, which went into effect Aug. 25. She quit her cushy job in a law firm and started a nonprofit she named Standing Together Tennessee. (AP Photo/John Amis)
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Lawyer's mission: Translate Tenn.'s bewildering abortion ban
By CLAIRE GALOFARO - AP National Writer
Mon,09/05/22-12:17AM , 224 Reads
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Chloe Akers considers herself a grizzled criminal defense attorney. Until a few months ago, she didn’t spend much time thinking about abortion — for all her 39 years, abortion was not a crime, so she’d never imagined having to defend someone accused of performing one.
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- Chloe Akers talks to Rabbi Laurie Rice, right, and Dr. Nancy Lipsitz, left, before giving a presentation at Congregation Micah synagogue, Friday, Aug. 5, 2022 in Brentwood, Tenn. Akers considers herself a grizzled criminal defense attorney. Until a few months ago, she didn’t spend much time thinking about abortion - for all her 39 years, abortion was not a crime, so she’d never imagined having to defend someone accused of performing one. (AP Photo/John Amis)
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Lawyer's mission: Translate Tenn.'s bewildering abortion ban
By CLAIRE GALOFARO - AP National Writer
Mon,09/05/22-12:10AM , 253 Reads
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Chloe Akers considers herself a grizzled criminal defense attorney. Until a few months ago, she didn’t spend much time thinking about abortion — for all her 39 years, abortion was not a crime, so she’d never imagined having to defend someone accused of performing one.
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- A heart-shaped balloon flies, decorating a memorial site outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. In a town as small as Uvalde, even those who didn't lose their own child lost someone. Some say now that closeness is both their blessing and their curse: they can lean on each other to grieve. But every single one of them is grieving. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
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Empty spaces, broken hearts in a Texas town gutted by loss
By CLAIRE GALOFARO - AP National Writer
Mon,05/30/22-11:23PM , 159 Reads
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Josie Albrecht drove frantically from house to house, retracing the school bus route she drives twice a day, delivering Uvalde’s children safely to and from school.
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